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Explain the structure of ICE?

Ice is the crystalline form of water. It takes a hexagonal form if crystallized at atmospheric pressure, but condenses to cubic form if the temperature is very low.

The three-dimensional structure of ice is represented as:

The structure is highly ordered and has hydrogen bonding. Each oxygen atom is surrounded tetrahedrally by four other oxygen atoms at a distance of 276 pm. The structure also contains wide holes that can hold molecules of appropriate sizes interstitially.

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Ice, like all solids, has a well-definedstructure; each water?molecule?is surrounded by four neighboring H2Os. two of these are hydrogen-bonded to the oxygen atom on the central H2O?molecule, and each of the two hydrogen atoms is similarly bonded to another neighboring H2O.
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